{"id":20773,"date":"2014-07-30T17:17:08","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T17:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=20773"},"modified":"2014-07-30T17:17:08","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T17:17:08","slug":"24-year-old-cancer-victim-inspires-after-death-as-her-ashes-sail-into-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2014\/07\/24-year-old-cancer-victim-inspires-after-death-as-her-ashes-sail-into-the-atlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"24-year-old Cancer Victim Inspires After Death as Her Ashes Sail into the Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Maires-Journey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20774\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Maires-Journey-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Maires Journey\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Maires-Journey-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Maires-Journey-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Maires-Journey-620x465.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Maires-Journey-940x705.jpg 940w, https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Maires-Journey.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">It was about eight months into her fight with heart cancer that 24-year-old Maire Kent knew she was going to die.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Inspired by her favorite children&#8217;s book, &#8220;Paddle to Sea,&#8221; in which a boy carves a wooden boat and sets it free in the Great Lakes, Kent turned to her family and said, &#8220;I want to do that. I want to go to the ocean. Cremate me and put my ashes in a boat. I want to go from Lake Michigan to the Atlantic Ocean.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/07\/29\/health\/cancer-victim-ashes-boat-trip\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mairesjourney.com\/\">Maire&#8217;s Journey<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mairesjourneytothesea\">Maire&#8217;s Journey FB page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was about eight months into her fight with heart cancer that 24-year-old Maire Kent knew she was going to die. Inspired by her favorite children&#8217;s book, &#8220;Paddle to Sea,&#8221; in which a boy carves a wooden boat and sets it free in the Great Lakes, Kent turned to her family and said, &#8220;I want to do that. I want to go to the ocean. Cremate me and put my ashes in a boat. I want to go from Lake Michigan to the Atlantic Ocean.&#8221; Read More Maire&#8217;s Journey Maire&#8217;s Journey FB page<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20775,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20773\/revisions\/20775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}